Automation Anywhere: Rashim Mogha is championing diversity through eWOW
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DECEMBER 2019
Automation Anywhere: Rashim Mogha is championing diversity through eWOW
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Rashim Mogha, Founder of eWOW and Global Head of Education Products, Automation Anywhere, is leading the way in bringing more women into the tech industry and shares how we can too
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ashim Mogha is clearly the woman to watch. eWOW (empowered Women of the World) founder and the The Global
Head of Education Products, Automation Anywhere University, best-selling author, keynote speaker and equality influencer has just been awarded Woman of the Year 2019. This is the third award Mogha has won in 2019 alone, having also been recognised as a Woman of Influence for Silicon Valley, and winning the Women Empowerment: Game Changer Award for her eWOW initiative, which empowers women to be successful, and for her career achievements. “I’ve had the privilege of working at the forefront of cuttingedge technology throughout my career,” says Mogha, a veteran of companies like VMware, AWS and Oracle. “I led the education program for AWS, including bootcamps at re:Invent, annual AWS conference where we trained over 8,000 people during a three-day event.” AWS provided Mogha with an opportunity to create education solutions that can function in
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“Say yes to every opportunity and, as you climb the ladder, don’t forget to give back” — Rashim Mogha, Founder of eWOW and Global Head of Education Products, Automation Anywhere w w w.a uto ma t i o na ny where. com
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“ When you really look at it, robotic process automation (RPA) is going to drive how business is done and what the future of work is in the era of the fourth industrial revolution” 06
— Rashim Mogha, Founder of eWOW and Global Head of Education Products, Automation Anywhere
real-time as well as to scale them out. At Oracle, Mogha built the enablement strategy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from the ground up. “Coming to Automation Anywhere was a natural progression as I had the necessary knowledge of how to build products for startup environment, and then to scale them out. That’s what my role involves right now at Automation Anywhere.” Her main responsibility is developing education products to help accomplish Automation Anywhere’s March to Million mission of educating a million individuals on developing and using robotic process automation and prepare for the jobs of the future. “This goal was very appealing to me because when you really look at it, robotic process automation (RPA) is going to drive how business is done and what the future of work is in the era of the
CLICK TO WATCH : ‘RASHIM MOGHA, AUTOMATION ANYWHERE | WOMEN TRANSFORMING TECHNOLOGY 2019’ 07 fourth industrial revolution.” She asserts
empower more women to join and stay
the need for upskilling and reskilling to
in the tech industry.”
maintain momentum in this ever-evolving industry, confident that knowledge of
AUTOMATION ANYWHERE UNIVERSITY
RPA will soon be a prerequisite for jobs
“Businesses are missing out on creating
of future just like word processors and
compelling global solutions by not hav-
office productivity tools. Mogha is also
ing diversity at decision-making levels,
passionate about leadership and has
as considerations for women are time
been recognised as a Top 100 keynote
and time again missed,” says Mogha.
speaker by databird and a Top 20
“For example, the health app released
thought leaders by Thinkers 360. She
by Apple in 2015 did not incorporate or
says “Launching eWOW in 2018 was a
take into account women’s reproductive
natural progression. Having held leader-
cycles, and facial recognition algorithms
ship roles at VMware, AWS, and Oracle,
have a success rate of only 33% on
it was now my turn to give back and
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to 99% for white men. The creators of
academic institutions. Mogha shares
the solutions were only thinking of one
that Automation Anywhere’s Enterprise
gender; 49% of the population (men)
A2019 platform offers capabilities to
cannot create solutions for 100% of the
enterprises of all sizes, including: an intui-
world’s population.” It is for this reason
tive web-based interface that simplifies
that Mogha says it is essential to bring
bot development; a cloud-native platform
diversity of thought in the tech industry in
that offers customers RPA-as-a-Service
order to create equal solutions and drive
from the cloud with reduced cost and
the industry forward.
“near-infinite” scalability; AI capabilities
The March to Millions initiative is
to integrate third-party solutions and
helping in opening up opportunities
natural language processing; and new
for everyone and so far has delivered
Attended Automation 2.0, allowing
500,000 RPA trainings to business
greater collaboration between humans
analysts, developers, program managers,
and bots across teams and workflows.
partners, and students. The program is
Automation Anywhere University’s
gaining momentum with its 65 author-
education products play a key role in
ised training partners across 300+
upskilling the citizen developers on
Automation Anywhere’s Enterprise
Anywhere University, we are making
A2019 platform. Origin Learning and
opportunities available to everybody,”
Newgen are strategic training develop-
affirms Mogha. She shares a phrase
ment partners ,working with Automation
often said by Mihir Shukla, CEO of
Anywhere University to create its educa-
Automation Anywhere: “Talent is equally
tion products. “These training partners
distributed. Opportunities are not.”
have been instrumental in helping us develop educational products for our
EWOW: LEADING BY EXAMPLE
global audience. Our trainings are free,
“The eWOW initiative is my way of giving
engaging and localized, making it easy
back to the community. It is an initiative to
for anyone to learn how to develop and
empower women to be successful, what-
use bots to eliminate the mundane and
ever the definition of success is for them,”
focus on being creative. With Automation
says Mogha. 09
E XE CU T I VE PRO FI LE
Rashim Mogha Mogha is a thought leader and women in tech evangelist. A keynote speaker and #1 Amazon best-selling author of “Fast-Track Your Leadership Career” Rashim speaks at conferences around the world, inspiring women and girls to further their career in technology. Her extensive career portfolio includes leadership roles in companies such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and VMware where she built high-performing teams to support over US$2bn businesses. H er thought leadership innovation and women in technology have appeared in publications such as Forbes and ATD and platforms like Linkedin Learning. With a goal to empower leaders in 2018, she founded eWOW: Empowered Women of the World. eWOW is an intellectual platform designed to help women with their technical and leadership skills to be successful and thrive. Rashim is a recipient of ’Women Empowerment: Game Changer, Woman of the Year and Silicon Valley Woman of Influence’ awards.
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ENTERPRISE
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Year founded
we believe that every woman is a leader in her own way – all she needs is an intellectual platform that can help her navigate the path.” The eWOW platform
1,500,000+ bots and counting
1,750+ Number of employees
In September 2018, Mogha released her book on leadership, Fast-Track Your Leadership Career: A definitive template for advancing your career, which became an Amazon Bestseller within 11 hours of release. “I had goosebumps! It took me a little while to realise the level of impact this was having on people, but many women and men leaders began to reach out, requesting to continue the conversation around empowerment.” In November 2018, she launched the eWOW initiative: Empowered Women of the World, designed to provide women with the framework to be successful at the workplace. “At eWOW,
offers Alexa skills, podcasts, various online and in-person events, and leadership workshops. The eWOW podcast has an audience in over 31 countries. “It’s about empowering women, wherever they are, in their journey to leadership. The eWOW initiative is well on its way CO MPAN Y FACT S
• Facial recognition algorithms have a success rate of only 33% for darker-skinned women, as opposed to 99% for white men • The March to Millions initiative is helping providing opportunities to everyone and Automation Anywhere University has delivered 500,000 RPA trainings to business analysts, developers, program managers, partners, and students.
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“ 49% of the 100,000 women globally.” “10 years ago, women were expected population (men) to act like men to a certain extent to cannot create be successful in a leadership role, as solutions for 100% most of their peers were men,” reflects of the world’s Mogha. “Today, women can own their narrative, bring their whole self to work population” to reaching out and empowering
and become empathetic leaders without having to pretend to be one of the
men in the room.” Mogha believes that while women have more confidence to speak up within these leadership
— Rashim Mogha, Founder of eWOW and Global Head of Education Products, Automation Anywhere
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BRIGHTER FUTURES Looking to the future, Mogha has one main piece of advice to others looking to move forward in their careers. “Say yes to every opportunity and, as you climb the ladder, don’t forget to give back.” To companies, she suggests: “If you want this world to be an equal place and help solve world problems, make sure that you are truly bringing diversity and inclusion into your workforce and into your thought processes, as opposed to just thinking of it as a token or a box that you need to check.” Mogha concludes: “The future is bright for women in tech; there has been an inspiring growth in the number of women attending tech events and many companies are also starting to realise build programs to bring and retain women in the workforce.” As the tech industry continues to embark on diversity and inclusion initiatives, there is no doubt that Rashim Mogha will be at the forefront of this drive, continuing to inspire women to challenge bias and push themselves to be empathetic and forward-thinking leaders who create solutions for real world problems.
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